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COVID variant 'Stratus' spreading in the US: Key symptoms and preventive measures to note - Times of India The Stratus (XFG) variant, a recombinant subvariant of COVID-19, is rapidly spreading across the US and globally. While not more severe, it's marked by early hoarseness and high transmissibility. Expe...

New variant dropped. Following nimbus, we now have stratus. Why we’re naming these for cloud forms…🤷‍♀️ vaccines and masking help prevent spread! Get your booster AND wear a well-fitted n95 mask to protect yourself and others! Especially those in high risk communities. Link in comments.

So happy for you. This is what I hope happens to me with my next dog.

Meet Felix Sater, the Russian-born, bar-fighting felon with ties to the mob at the center of Mueller's Russia investigation Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman with a checkered past, emerged as a central figure in the investigation into Russian election interference.

Felix Sater ties the entire Russia, Trump thing together.
This article explains clearly how Donald Trump colluded with Russia.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

The administration is kicking millions off of their healthcare and implementing tariffs that jack up prices on working Americans.

Meanwhile, JD Vance had the army corps of engineers raise the water of an Ohio river so Vance could enjoy a boat vacation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

we know what solves homelessness: more housing

we know what solves medical debt: universal healthcare

I'm 48 years old and I've never heard a single pundit say this on national/corporate TV

fuck yes.

Matt Taibbi: "Hey, Grok? Evidence sure as hell is not “robust.” Evidence is weaker than the WMD case. You need to adjust your program to account for the awesome quantity of errors in Russia reporting and bad-faith political actors like John Brennan and Adam Schiff"

lol Matt Taibbi is arguing with Grok now

YouTube video by MSNBC Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'

"US military force turned inward on us in an ongoing and permanent way...what else do you think of when you think of authoritarian countries?"

Fantastic @maddow.msnbc.com segment on Trump and our slide into authoritarian rule (discusses our reporting on internal DHS memo):
youtu.be/VQbDgOaOh4c

The Trump Cult is a death cult. Jonestown on a national scale. Maybe a few drift back to reality, but even under best wishes, there will always be millions who will drink the KoolAid.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

She rocks!

Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."

YouTube video by News Channel Nebraska LIVE | Rep. Mike Flood Town Hall | Lincoln Nebraska

Here's the full Town Hall.

She's at 27:40 minutes in. The audience didn't like his answer.

The veteran before her was good as well. Lots of good questions from this crowd.

thank you for posting. The questions were excellent.

Live Coverage of Town Hall with Congressman Mike Flood (Nebraska's 1st Congressional District) YouTube video by Nebraska Public Media

Here’s the full video from the town-hall to save ya’ll a YouTube search.

Notice the Bible injection in the intro…

Jesus Christ we’re a Christofascist country.

www.youtube.com/live/zleBod9...

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

She wins the day

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

This message is powerful.

Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws.

Then that president's political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done.

That's what's happening in Texas right now.

With a few days distance from this event, it reeks even worse.

If government data just becomes propaganda and the leader gets to make up whatever numbers he wants, it becomes impossible for a democracy to function. This is not a small moment.

Security Analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X - CITP Blog Today, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia permitted the public release of Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices, a 96-page report that describe...

be manipulated to evade existing protections. But I think that's the wrong assumption. We know these systems are inadequately secured and vulnerable to exploits. 12/ blog.citp.princeton.edu/2023/06/14/s...

Voting experts warn of 'serious threats' for 2024 from election equipment software breaches The letter to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting ma...

And possibly most important, before the '24 election, voting systems and proprietary software were improperly accessed by Trump allies, enabling potential bad actors to develop stealth, sophisticated attacks that could evade pre-election testing and be launched...15/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Imagine you're a passenger in a plane.
You're flying in a heavy storm and the pilot says,
"I have zero visibility,
but I'm NOT going to trust my instruments –
cuz my rival pilots rigged them against me tryin’ to make me look bad
...but trust me, I'm going to fly by my gut." This is exactly what Trump did by
firing the fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner
Erika McEntarfer

Flyin' blind

One thing he does well is give you the raw and uncut stuff. We need more like him, to be honest.

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Too many things happening today are exactly what she's talking about. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social nails it. Just sad it took me so long to find this video.

How climate messaging should be done